Category : Photography

Using Sky Guide – Tips for Night Photography Sky Guide is a great app for star gazing but did you know it is also a very useful tool for creating your night sky photography plans? I use it for planning milky way shots, eclipses, meteor showers, star gazing, planet ID and more. It is certainly one of my favorite apps for the iPhone and it’s just plain fun! I want to share with you a couple tips for setting up Sky […]

Calendar Photo of the Month – Milky Way Over Anthony Lakes Happy New Year Everyone! It’s finally time to hang your new 2019 Northeast Oregon Calendar and, as promised, I will tell you all about the January photo. I titled this photo Milky Way Over Anthony Lakes. This photo was taken at Anthony Lakes in Northeast Oregon. The mountain on the left is Gunsight as many of you probably already know. The next peak in the middle is Lees Peak and […]

Cascadia – Where Oregon Meets I am pleased to announce that I am collaborating with Crossroads Carnegie Art Center in Baker City to bring this beautiful book to you as a special holiday offering. In April of this year, Crossroads curated the Cascadia Photography Exhibition for Oregon photographers. I had the very good fortune to be able to participate in this wonderful photography show. “The story of Oregon has too often been a tale of two halves – east and […]

Life in the Rear View Mirror I remember starting out as a fresh young woman full of ideas and possibilities for my life. I could go anyplace I set my focus. Problem is, I chose instead to live my life spontaneously, to follow my heart wherever it wanted to go. I don’t know why I said, “Problem is…”, because in truth, I don’t have regrets about how things turned out. Intuitively, my heart seemed to know the way, even though […]

2017 Total Solar Eclipse Rye Valley Oregon A rare Total Solar Eclipse occurred on August 21, 2017, all across the United States. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon completely blocks the direct light of the Sun. The path of totality swept across the US moving from Oregon in the west to South Carolina in the east. Rye Valley, located in eastern Oregon, was an excellent place to view the eclipse. This location in Rye Valley was sitting directly in […]